A LONG VOYAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 6

A LONG VOYAGE

WOMAN'S SHARE

"When the fifty-ton schooner Our Western Queen weighs.anchor from Tilbury this week for a 12,000-miles trip to the South Sea Islands a 24-year-old London girl will have realised a year's ambition," stated a London newspaper recently.

The young woman is Mrs. Arthur, the ownor of the boat, and the wife of Captain C. W. A. Arthur, who is going to explore the possibilities of world-wide short-wave broadcasting. "For weeks wo have been working almost night and day making flic final arrangements for the voyage," Mrs. Arthur said, "but it is really a year since we first started planning the trip. "Wo are now practically ready to start, and wo have nearly five tons of provisions aboard. Altogether there will be-eight of us aboard, but Ishall be tho only.woman.

"Our first stop is to be at tho. Azores, and then we go on to the West Indies. Our longest stage will be from Panama to Fiji, about 5000 miles, but.weWi.re hoping to do it inside a month.

"Of course, I shall have to take my share of the work the same as the others, for there is not room for passengers on this voyage. Everyone will have to take a share in everything, even to a regular day in the kitchen.

"The longest trip I have yet done in my boat is a 600-mile run from Ireland, but I know how to steer, and I've had to take my turn at night watches, so I am not worrying much about this new venture. I'm a good sailor, anyway."